Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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    Formerlj' a bedroom in the president’s lodgings, now an anteroom to the library ; it has been curtailed by staircase No. 9 and the adjacent bedroom. The heads of the eastern windows retain traces of old work, and there is a very ancient wooden doorway lately reopened between this room and the library. “ Formerly a sitting-room in the lodgings; now the bursar’s office. ** Probably the large first-floor room at the north end of the east (or library) side of the old quadrangle: it was ‘ ceeled ’ at the date of the survey; once the dining-room, then the drawing-room, of the president’s lodgings ; since 1887 occupied by the present writer. The large ground-floor room, once the study and lately the dining- room of the lodgings. Probably the room in the middle of the north range ; in Loggan’s view it has one large and one small window. The walls of this room still remain, though much disguised by suc- cessive alterations. Sir Thomas Pope ordered that the ‘cubiculum angulare aulae ex parte boriali contiguum ’ should be used ‘ pro domi- norum filiis,’ if any were studying at the College (Trinity Statutes, c. xxvi). In the last century it was a ‘ Bachelors’ Common Room.’ Afterwards the gazophylacium or treasury of Trinity College ; seen in Loggan’s view. Once the bedroom of the ‘ poor scholars ’ at Trinity, now the Com- mon Room; possibly used as an oratory by the monks till 1408 (see Introduction, p. ii). The original (1665) Common Room of Trinity College; then the Bursary, now ‘ the old Bursary,’ used as a lecture-room. The floor is now considerably below the level of the quadrangle. ** Either the three rooms unaccounted for in the north range (see Log- gan’s view); or possibly the building NW. of the buttery, demolished about 1680. Cf. Comp. 1405. Pro mundacione communis latrine et seneuectorio ix^vij^ob. Comp. 1431. Item pro scenouectorio xiiij'i. F. Status Collegii, 1456. (This inventory is similar to the last, but contains a number of additional items, mostly presents from ex-Wardens or Fellows of the College: the Latinity is more ambitious, especially in the list of kitchen utensils. There is also a roll entitled ‘ Status Collegii monachorum Dunelmensium dimissus per Magistrum Johannem Bumby in festo Sancti Michaelis Anno Domini millesimo CCCC qninquagesimo ’; three or four items which are neither in the 1428 roll nor in this are mentioned in the notes This roll is docketed 1455, but it must belong to the following year, since Bishop Robert Nevill’s confirmation of Bumby’s election as Prior is dated 25 ^ ov. 1456 (Hist. Dunelra. app. ccliv). The items printed in Italics have been scored through in the MS., possibly to make this list serve again at another change of \\ arden.